{"id":103798,"date":"2026-05-17T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=103798"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:35:37","slug":"western-hoolock-gibbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/western-hoolock-gibbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Hoolock Gibbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Western Hoolock Gibbon Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a first, a male Western Hoolock Gibbon housed in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in Assam&#8217;s Jorhat district crossed the canopy bridges installed over a railway line passing through the sanctuary.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Western Hoolock Gibbon<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>smallest and fastest of all apes.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is found in a range of forest types, from <\/span><b>moist deciduous to evergreen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sub-tropical to lowland.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found in all the states of the north-east, restricted between the <\/span><b>south of the Brahmaputra river and east of the Dibang river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Outside India, it is found in <\/span><b>Bangladesh and Myanmar.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Characteristics of Western Hoolock Gibbon<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>diurnal and arboreal, brachiating<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through the trees with their long arms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>monogamous (<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">same partner throughout life).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They live in small families and communicate with other gibbons by vocalisation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Life span:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 25 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Habitat destruction illegal logging presented the greatest threat.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Conservation Status<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>IUCN:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Endangered<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Schedule I<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/breakthrough-in-ape-conservation-western-hoolock-gibbon-spotted-using-innovative-canopy-bridge-in-assam\/articleshow\/131124863.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Hoolock Gibbon is the smallest and fastest of all apes. Read more about Western Hoolock Gibbon, Habitat, Characteristics, Conservation, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":103967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7584],"class_list":{"0":"post-103798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-western-hoolock-gibbon","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103889,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103798\/revisions\/103889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}